Editing Solon Borglum (section)

==Education==
In 1893 Solon went to Omaha to study with [[J. Laurie Wallace]], a former pupil of [[Thomas Eakins]]. Following this early, and evidently brief, formal training, he joined his brother Gutzon at his home in the Sierra Madre mountains. A personality clash with Gutzon’s first wife Lisa however, forced Solon to move on; he went to Los Angeles, where he painted portraits and to [[Santa Ana, California]], where he taught art privately. He had little success, however, and in November 1895 he traveled to [[Cincinnati, Ohio]], where he entered the Cincinnati Art Academy. One of his instructors, the sculptor [[Louis Rebisso]], encouraged him to try sculpting. His first effort was a sculpture of a group of horses based on observations and drawings he had made at the U.S. Mail stables in Cincinnati.<ref>Glenn B. Opitz, ed., ''Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors, and Engravers'' (Poughkeepsie, NY: Apollo, 1983), p. 88. {{ISBN|0938290029}}</ref>

[[File:Solon Borglum 1902.jpg|thumb|left|Borglum working, 1902]]

In 1898 the Art Academy awarded Borglum a scholarship that allowed him to go to Paris, where he matriculated at the [[Académie Julian]] as a student of [[Denys Puech]]. He met leading sculptors [[Emmanuel Fremiet]] and [[Augustus Saint-Gaudens]], who gave him further encouragement. Borglum received a silver medal at the [[Exposition Universelle (1900)]] and another at the [[Pan-American Exposition]] in [[Buffalo, NY]]<ref>Caffin, p. 149</ref>